December 5-11

Objectives:
Students will use appropriate nonverbal cues such as eye contact and gestures in their speeches.
Students will create a speech that narrates, amuses, or persuades.
The class will create a supportive environment for beginning public speakers.
Students will increase verbal communication and public speaking skills

Aim: How can we honor Sibyl Vane's death in a eulogy?
Do Now: Complete the following as a journal entry---The most beautiful speech I have ever heard is..., At my _funeral gave a speech that was..., At my graduation, birthday party, wedding, special event, _paid tribute to...
Mini Lesson:
What is a Eulogy?
A eulogy is a well-crafted speech intended to commemorate a loved one who has died. It is usually presented at a memorial service or funeral by someone who was close to the deceased and knows them well.
A eulogy may contain:

• a condensed life history of the person who has died

• details about family, friends, work/career, interests, and achievements

• favorite memories of the deceased

• favorite poems, songs, quotes, scripture.

The most touching and meaningful eulogies are written from the heart. A eulogy does not have to be perfect. Whatever you write and deliver will be appreciated by the people in attendance.

An example of a eulogy is Elton John's tribute to Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean), and Princess Diana.
http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Elton%2BJohn/similarartists
http://www.last.fm/music/Elton+John/_/Candle+in+the+Wind

Whole Class: What are the key elements of a Eulogy?

Cooperative Learning: In your small groups, please compile the following information about Sibyl Vane from your novels. You must cite your source MLA style.
Each group will gather information about Sibyl Vane from the book (cite your sources)

• Persons age/date of birth -
  

• Family and other close relationships

• Education/work/career

• Hobbies or special interests

• Places the person lived

• How did she die?

• Time of death?

• Special accomplishments

• Use at least 3 vocabulary words from the Vocabulary Word List from Portrait that is appropriate for a eulogy.

• What is your image of Sibyl Vane?

• What other things can we list about Sibyl?

Each group will share out!

Homework: Update your Blogs. Bring in an image of what you think Sibyl Vane looks like. Read up to Chapter 15.

Aim: How can we use and review a rubric to synthesize and produce a narrative account in the form of a eulogy of Sibyl Vane?
Recall: A eulogy is a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing. The word is derived from two Greek words - ευ (pronounced "you") meaning good or well and λογος (pronounced "logos") meaning word, phrase, speech, etc.
Materials: 1, 3, 4, 9, and 11
Do Now: Take out your picture of Sibyl Vane (this was your weekend homework) and write in your journal why you think this image best represents Sibyl Vane.
Mini Lesson on Rubric to use as a guide to writing your eulogy of Sibyl Vane: Ms. Hyde’s Rubric for Writing Eulogy for Oscar Wilde’s character Sibyl Vane. The rubric includes students brainstorm about key elements of Eulogy, online research, and goals set for this lesson.

Sibyl Vane’s Eulogy Writing Rubric

Quality	Apprentice Ok, Good Try.	Practitioner Very good. Clear, strong.	Expert Wow! Awesome! Excellent!	Total
Particular Theme of Eulogy or focus on one achievement of Sibyl Vane.	Inferred Theme, but lacks development and support.	Suggests a theme, and make clear and explicit connections between information and ideas from the text and assigned task	Writes a theme that reveals in-depth analysis of the text, make insightful connections between information and ideas in the text and the assigned task.
Organization: Eulogy is written in chronological order. Give 5 major events should include birthday, education, career, first met Dorian, Rejection and cause of Death.	Gives 1-2 major events. And has little structure	Includes 3 major events. And has some structure	Includes 5 major life events And has a Beginning, Middle, and Conclusion
Conventions: Correct spelling and punctuation, non-formal writing, use of 3 Vocabulary Words from Wilde.	Demonstrate partial control, exhibiting occasional errors that do not hinder comprehension	Demonstrate control of the cenventions, exhibiting occasional errors only when using sophisticated language	Demonstrate control of the conventions with essentially no errors, even with sophisticated language
Details and Development about Sibyl Vane	Little details about family, friends, work/career, interests, and achievements	Some details about family, friends, work/career, interests, and achievements	All details about family, friends, work/career, interests, and achievements
Image	No image of Sibyl Vane	Image somewhat represents Sibyl Vane’s character	Image represents Sibyl Vane’s character
Favorite memories of Sibyl Vane	Does not include any found memories of Sibyl Vane	Includes 1 found memory of Sibyl	Includes 2 or more found memories of Sibyl Vane
Quotations with citations.	Forgot to include quote. No citations	Includes quote, develops ideas clearly and consistently, using relevant and specific details from the text. With Citation(s)	Include quote and develop ideas clearly and fully, making effective use of a wide range of relevant and specific details from the text Complete citation(s)
Delivery, Tone, and duration	Only one student paid tribute to Sibyl, using an appropriate tone within 2 minutes	Only 2 Student paid tribute to Sibyl, using an appropriate tone within 2 minutes	Everyone in the group paid tribute to Sibyl, using an appropriate tone within 2 minutes
Technology	No use of technology	Use of one multimedia	Use of more than one multimedia.

Rubric Adaptation: Students may choose to write a formal eulogy, while some may pay tribute to Sibyl Vane through a Rap Song, and Poem. Eulogy should not exceed 1 page.

Synthesize: What quality would you like to add to the rubric? Is it clear and understandable?

Cooperative Learning: Students will work in small groups and do the following:
Visit the following Link to view famous eulogies.
http://www.eulogyspeech.net/famous-eulogies/
Then create two possible themes for your eulogy.
Select an image to represent Sibyl Vane.
Start outlining your eulogy.

Critical thinking respond in your notebooks: Who would most likely give the eulogy of Sibyl Vane and why?

Schedule of work and deadlines

• We will complete writing our eulogy in class tomorrow for peer editing on Wednesday 12/10/08
• Presentations begin on Thursday 12/11/08
  Memorial Service for Sibyl Vane will be held on Thursday 3rd period. Casual to formal attire. Please bring in your own props, and let me know in advance if you need any additional services such as the projector, speakers etc.
• Reminder to update your blogs
  
  Homework: Post to your blogs what you accomplished today. Upon completion of Eulogy ALL students are required to post their eulogy on their Blog page.

December 3-4

Objective: Students will recognize, identify, and discuss the different levels of meaning in the text. Students will use an organizer to compare and contrast characters feelings towards death. Students will identify literary techniques in text. Students will work together as a group.

Aim: Which of the five stages of grief does Dorian experience after Sibyls death?

Do Now: Complete the following statement as a journal entry--After ____ death or after the death of, I felt after...

Mini Lesson: Teacher will make a disclaimer about the topic of death due to the sensitivity and any negative experience any student may have. Therefore, such students are exempt from this class discussion.

What Are The Stages of Grief?

Many people have tried to explain what grief is; some have even identified certain stages of grief.
Probably the most well-known of these might be from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' book, "On Death and Dying." In it, she identified five stages that a dying patient experiences when informed of their terminal prognosis.
The stages Kubler-Ross identified are:

• Denial (this isn't happening to me!)
• Anger (why is this happening to me?)
• Bargaining (I promise I'll be a better person if...)
• Depression (I don't care anymore)
• Acceptance (I'm ready for whatever comes)

Many people believe that these stages of grief are also experienced by others when they have lost a loved one.
Personally, I think of these definitions as emotional behaviors rather than stages, per se. I believe we may certainly experience some of these behaviors. But, I believe just as strongly, that there is no script for grief; that we cannot expect to feel any of our emotions in a particular set pattern. I do agree that acceptance is probably the last emotion felt, and in some instances it may be the only one.
A lesser known definition of the stages of grief is described by Dr. Roberta Temes in the book, "Living With An Empty Chair - a guide through grief." Temes describes three particular types of behavior exhibited by those suffering from grief and loss. They are:

• Numbness (mechanical functioning and social insulation)
• Disorganization (intensely painful feelings of loss)
• Reorganization (re-entry into a more 'normal' social life.)

I am better able to relate to this definition as it seems to more accurately reflect the types of behavior I have experienced and observed. Within these types of behavior might well be most of the feelings described in Kubler-Ross' writings as well.


Comprehension Check:
What happens the morning after Dorian's rejection of Sibyl? How does he learn about Sibyl's death? How did Sibyl die?

What is Lord Henry's reaction to Sibyl's death?

Why does Dorian refuse to allow Basil see the portrait? What does he threatens to do? What secret does Basil reveals about himself?

Analyze the conversation between Dorian and Basil about the portrait and why Basil has changed his mind about exhibiting it?

Cooperative Learning:
Use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the reactions of Lord Henry and Basil to Sibyl's death. Give at least two entries for each. Then refer to the legend of Narcissus. Compare and contrast Dorian's self-love with that of Narcissus and Narcissus' treatment of Echo with the way Dorian has treated Sibyl.



Homework:

Vocabulary:

Florid

Affinity

Absolution

Melancholy

Conjugal

Cognizance

Misanthrope

Find any similes, metaphors, and personification.

December 1-2

Objectives: Based on chapters 6 and 7 where Dorian tells Lord Henry and Basil about his engagement to Sibyl Vane and he also invites them to see her performance in the theater in Romeo and Juliet.
Students will identify significant literary elements (including foreshadowing, allusion, and irony) and use those elements to interpret the work.
Students will recognize, identify, and discuss the different levels of meaning in the text.
Students will apply the key terms of Homosexuality (Oscar Wilde was 19th century literature's most conspicuous homosexual), Aestheticism, and Decadents find evidence of it in the text.

Aim: How important is Wilde's credo "Art for Art sake" in Chapter six and What is the difference between Love and infatuation?

Do Now: begin a journal entry with I have been infatuated with... and the reason why.

Interpretive: Please cite sources/find text support for your answers.

Why does Lord Henry feels there is a class conflict between Dorian and Sibyl?

How can we compare and contrast both Sibyl and Dorian to Shakespeare's Juliet and Romeo?

"I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit" (Lord Henry)

Literary Device/techniques:
How is Dorian's feelings about Sibyl ironic?

How is the physical description of Sibyl a foreshadowing of her bad performance?

What allusions are referenced/cited in these chapters?

Comprehension:

How Does Dorian describes Sibyl's acting?

When Dorian confronts Sibyl what effect does it have on the his painting?

Connect:
How is Aestheticism and Decadence evident in Chapter six?

Critical Thinking:
How is Sibyl's acting like bad art?

What has truly caused Sibyl to quit or act badly?

Is Dorian truly in love with Sibyl or is he simply infatuated with her and WHY?

Cooperative Learning:
How is Homosexuality, Aestheticism, and Decadence evident in chapters six and seven? Cite sources.
use a four column chart to illustrate your findings.

Key term	Meaning	Support	Works Cited
Aestheticism
Decadence
Homosexuality

Homework:
Research: Analyze Dorian's relationship with Sibyl in the light of three very different mythological motifs: the stories of Actaeon and Artemis, Narcissus and Echo, and Adonis and Venus.


Note the literary Devices: Similes- hair clustered r ound face like dark leaves around a play rose; she trembled like a white narcissus; her body swayed...as a play sways in the water; drunkards chattering like a monstrous apes.
Personification- Nature.

Chapter 6 Vocabulary:

Infatuation - hobbies that they are passionately love to do.

Virtues - life and conduct to moral and ethical principles, uprightness, and rectitude.

Incorrigible - impervious to constraints or punishment.

Pompous - characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance.

Spiritualize - investment with a spiritual meaning.

Interminable - will to be incapable of being terminated.

Fiasco - complete and ignominious failure.

Profanation - violation of sacred things.

Anodyne - medicine that relieves or allays pain.

Illusion - sight that deceives him/her/it by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.